POLITICS-GOVT Is he a slick negotiator or a Dem in disguise? (ALIPAC)
Is he a slick negotiator or a Dem in disguise?
Friday, September 15, 2017
| Chad Groening (OneNewsNow.com)
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An immigration expert insists that President Donald Trump is a "master negotiator" who is not getting outmaneuvered by Democrats on Capitol Hill.
Trump is making headlines – and getting blasted by some conservative critics – as he sits with far-left Democratic leaders to discuss illegal immigration and raising the debt ceiling.
After a Wednesday night meeting with President Trump, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi described a "very productive" meeting that included an agreement on the Obama-era DACA program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Yet a statement came from Trump insisting there had been no deal on DACA but acknowledging he opposes deporting illegals brought into the U.S. as children.
Pelosi and Schumer left the meeting with Trump believing they had his support, says Art Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies.
"But I also believe that you have to consider the President's career and his position," he tells OneNewsNow. "Donald Trump is, if anything else, a master negotiator. And I think that he is the sort of person who allows folks to leave meetings with him believing that he agrees wholeheartedly with their position when that might not necessarily be true."
Other less-favorable reactions to Trump's negotiating have ranged from outrage from his most loyal supporters to ridicule from so-called "Never Trumpers" who are taking a victory lap after warning fellow Republicans last year that they were backing a lifelong New York Democrat.
Author and conservative analyst Ann Coulter, who once gleefully predicted Trump would be elected president, is blasting him for backtracking on building a border wall, caving on DACA, and flirting with amnesty.
"If we're not getting a wall," she wrote this week, "I'd prefer President Pence."
After Trump used Twitter to ask if "anybody" wants to "throw out" DACA holders who are "accomplished young people," The Blaze writer Matt Walsh responded to the question.
"Well, I can think of at least one person who said he wanted to throw them out," Walsh responded, referring to Trump himself.
Speaking to her audience this week on American Family Radio, Sandy Rios warned there is concern that Trump's campaign promises are "unvraveling" due to liberal advisors around him.
"I'm not declaring them dead," she said of those promises. "I'm just telling you that we are seeing a rapid reversal in almost everything we hoped the President would do."
OneNewsNow reported in a Sept. 8 story that William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC warned that Trump was toying with amnesty, and amnesty for illegal aliens would give the Democratic Party enough national votes to keep it in the majority for good.
"Trump lied to all of America," Gheen warned last week.
Trump did agree with the Democrats' claim that a border wall is not part of their discussions and negotiations, stating in yet another tweet that building the wall will come later.
But Arthur says he's not concerned about that either.
"Donald Trump is a master negotiator," he states again, "and any good negotiator knows that you don't say, I absolutely have to have this at the beginning, because the other side will negotiate against you for that one thing that you have to have."
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